Lambda Expressions Contracts

Lambda Expressions\Calculus
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Lambda Expressions skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Lambda Expressions over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 623 707
Rank change year-on-year +79 +84 -152
Contract jobs citing Lambda Expressions 47 95 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.69% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 81 123
10th Percentile £313 £475 £433
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £675
90th Percentile £675 £738 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +29.41%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Lambda Expressions is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,883 13,752 24,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.59% 23.25% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 10,030 17,634
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 238 153 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £40.08 £50.00 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.61 £81.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -24.00% +27.55% +8.89%

Lambda Expressions
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Lambda Expressions as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Lambda Expressions in the UK

Lambda Expressions
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lambda Expressions.

Daily rate trend for Lambda Expressions in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lambda Expressions over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lambda Expressions in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lambda Expressions.

Hourly rate trend for Lambda Expressions in the UK

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Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lambda Expressions within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 41 £500 -9.09% 15
London +71 25 £500 -16.67% 9
UK excluding London +56 14 £575 +9.52% 5
Work from Home +83 11 £625 +13.64% 10
North of England +29 11 £600 +9.09% 2
Yorkshire +23 6 £638 +17.24%
North West +21 5 £425 -22.73% 2
Scotland +40 2 - -
South West +15 1 £475 -9.52% 1
East of England +10 1 £325 -43.48%
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

Lambda Expressions
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.77%) Apache
1 6 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.38%) nginx
3 1 (2.13%) Anypoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 45 (95.74%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Serverless
3 13 (27.66%) Amazon S3
4 12 (25.53%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (23.40%) Amazon EC2
5 11 (23.40%) AWS Step Functions
6 9 (19.15%) Amazon Kinesis
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (14.89%) Azure
8 6 (12.77%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (12.77%) dbt
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub
8 6 (12.77%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (10.64%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.51%) Amazon EventBridge
10 4 (8.51%) AWS KMS
11 3 (6.38%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (6.38%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.38%) SSL
2 2 (4.26%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) DynamoDB
2 6 (12.77%) Big Data
2 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.51%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.38%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.38%) Flink
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.13%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) GitLab
3 3 (6.38%) Poetry
4 2 (4.26%) Mocha
5 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.13%) Maven
5 1 (2.13%) Selenium
5 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (10.64%) Electronics
2 4 (8.51%) Finance
2 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Banking
4 2 (4.26%) Retail
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing
5 1 (2.13%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (40.43%) Developer
2 11 (23.40%) Lead
3 9 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) Python Engineer
5 7 (14.89%) AWS Developer
5 7 (14.89%) Senior
5 7 (14.89%) Software Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Data Engineer
6 6 (12.77%) Python Developer
7 5 (10.64%) Architect
7 5 (10.64%) Python Data Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Scala Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Scala Software Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Scala Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
7 5 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (8.51%) Java Developer
8 4 (8.51%) Lead Developer
9 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (21.28%) Kafka
2 6 (12.77%) http4s
2 6 (12.77%) Node.js
2 6 (12.77%) Pandas
3 5 (10.64%) AWS CDK
3 5 (10.64%) RESTful
4 4 (8.51%) .NET
4 4 (8.51%) JWT
5 3 (6.38%) Great Expectations
5 3 (6.38%) LAPP Stack
5 3 (6.38%) NumPy
5 3 (6.38%) Plotly
5 3 (6.38%) PySpark
5 3 (6.38%) REST
5 3 (6.38%) scikit-learn
5 3 (6.38%) SciPy
5 3 (6.38%) Seaborn
5 3 (6.38%) Web Services
6 2 (4.26%) Entity Framework
6 2 (4.26%) LINQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Distributed Architecture
1 5 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.51%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.51%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.38%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (6.38%) PKI
4 2 (4.26%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) CentOS
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) CI/CD
2 15 (31.91%) Infrastructure as Code
3 14 (29.79%) Microservices
4 13 (27.66%) Agile
5 10 (21.28%) DevOps
5 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
6 8 (17.02%) OOP
6 8 (17.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (14.89%) OO
7 7 (14.89%) Project Management
7 7 (14.89%) Scrum
8 6 (12.77%) Data Pipeline
8 6 (12.77%) Data Science
8 6 (12.77%) Machine Learning
9 5 (10.64%) Functional Programming
9 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.64%) Roadmaps
9 5 (10.64%) Scrum-ban
9 5 (10.64%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (10.64%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 25 (53.19%) Python
2 13 (27.66%) Java
3 7 (14.89%) Scala
3 7 (14.89%) TypeScript
4 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.77%) SQL
5 4 (8.51%) C#
5 4 (8.51%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.38%) Bash
6 3 (6.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (51.06%) Terraform
2 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
3 4 (8.51%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (6.38%) Ansible
5 1 (2.13%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Splunk
2 5 (10.64%) Google
3 4 (8.51%) Okta
3 4 (8.51%) Roku
4 3 (6.38%) Sage
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.13%) New Relic
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) SAP
5 1 (2.13%) Sitecore